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Asking a Question is a FelonyFrom J. D. Tuccille I learn of the next turn down the slippery slide:
His crime? He had the audacity to ask questions about his border inspection (note, while leaving the U.S.). One of the jurors related:
I suspect the command he refused to follow was "Shut up." It's a pity the jurors saw fit to convict him of this; were all twelve such compliant sheep?
Peter Watts, a science fiction writer and marine biologist who was arrested in December after an argument with a U.S. border guard while driving back to his home in Toronto, has been convicted by a Michigan jury of a felony. Watts faces up to two years in prison -- potentially three, if prosecutors succeed in tagging him as a habitual offender over a 19-year-old conviction in Canada.
His crime? He had the audacity to ask questions about his border inspection (note, while leaving the U.S.). One of the jurors related:
"What it boiled down to was Mr. Watts did not follow the instructions of the customs agents. Period. He was not violent, he was not intimidating, he was not stopping them from searching his car. He did, however, refuse to follow the commands by his non compliance."
I suspect the command he refused to follow was "Shut up." It's a pity the jurors saw fit to convict him of this; were all twelve such compliant sheep?
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